To be fair they did the same thing to that Italian who elbowed Brian McBride. He got a 4 game ban.Skint Gull said:SSN yesterday were reporting that FIFA were investigating him for violent conduct? I thought once a ref has seen an incident and given a card thats the end of it and FIFA can't do anything....... or is that just when its Figo?
Must be different when its an England player!
ChapmansThe Saviour said:Is he going to be allowed to argue that he didn't do anything?
Skint Gull said:SSN yesterday were reporting that FIFA were investigating him for violent conduct? I thought once a ref has seen an incident and given a card thats the end of it and FIFA can't do anything....... or is that just when its Figo?
Must be different when its an England player!
Skint Gull said:SSN yesterday were reporting that FIFA were investigating him for violent conduct? I thought once a ref has seen an incident and given a card thats the end of it and FIFA can't do anything....... or is that just when its Figo?
Must be different when its an England player!
Tooting Gull said:I still think the case is very far from proven that it was a deliberate stamp at all, let alone a red-card offence.
He'd had two players virtually hauling him over, the only reason he was still tussling with Carvalho is that he was trying to win back a ball other players would have given up long before.
Easy 10 said:Will he be allowed to ask why the ref allowed two Portugese players to continue to hack and pull at him from behind for several seconds, without getting anywhere near the ball, without blowing for an England free kick ? Or, as seems the norm nowadays, was Rooney instead obliged to throw himself to the floor in writhing "agony" in order to get the free kick ?
Les Biehn said:It has actually partially ruined the World Cup for me
Spot on.Albion Rob said:Come on Easy, you know the score - if you're getting hacked to bits but you stay on your feet - no foul.
If a player comes withing a metre of you, regardless of making contact with you or not, then as long as you throw yourself on the deck, there;s a nice free kick waiting for you.
Get your team mates to start gesturing to the ref in exactly the way they were told would earn them a booking before the tournament started and you could even win your foe a red or yellow card.
I don't know abot Rooney being thick but we all need to wise up if we're going to stop getting this nagging sinking feeling evey two years - cheats prosper at football.